When the European Central Bank introduced a negative interest rate on lenders’ deposits two years ago, few thought things would ever go this far. This week, a German cooperative savings bank in the Bavarian village of Gmund am Tegernsee — population 5,767 — said it’ll start charging retail customers to hold their cash. Beset by sagging poll numbers, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is stepping up his attacks on news organizations, suggesting that biased coverage is turning the election against him. In speeches, tweets and TV appearances, Trump and his backers in recent days suggested he would be ahead in the polls if the media didn’t favor his opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton. Trump is under pressure from many in the GOP to steer his campaign beyond his signature incendiary comments and toward substance that might broaden his appeal. Bond markets are certainly displaying a lot of enthusiasm at the moment – and it doesn’t matter which bonds one looks at, as the famous “hunt for yield” continues to obliterate interest returns across the board like a steamroller. At Rory’s prescient behest, we have been way out in front of the curve on the Silk Road and on the issue of China using the IMF to push aside the dollar as the reserve currency.
Rory’s Daily Coin has been all over the restructuring of the IMF’s SDR, something on which the mainstream and alternative media has been conspicuously silent.
Global gold demand reached 2,335 tonnes (t) in the first half of 2016 with investment reaching record first half levels, 16% higher than the previous record in 2009, according to the World Gold Council’s latest Gold Demand Trends report.

The second quarter in 2016 continued in the same vein as the first quarter this year with overall gold demand growing to 1,050t, up 15% from the Q2 2015 figure of 910t, boosted by considerable and consistent investment demand. Many a-list celebs have tones of fame but their fortunes are small potatoes compared to these folks, the billionaires. The story of millionaire Simon Cowell, who dropped out of school at 15, worked for Sony BMG and EMI Music.
Our roundtable guests talk about their roles as agents and being acknowledged by their clients. The world knows Valeria Lukyanova as the girl who turned herself into a real-life Barbie doll. Indeed, even with the broad averages in record territory, this has been the most boring summer that I can recall.
From September, for savings in excess of 100,000 euros ($111,710), the community’s Raiffeisen bank will take back 0.4 percent.
Corporate and government debt have been soaring for years, but investor appetite for such debt has evidently grown even more. Casey Research finally caught up with their own Silk Road piece – more than a year after the Shadow of Truth was chatting about it.

Investment demand reached 448t as investors sought risk diversification and a safe store of value in the face of continued political, economic and social instability. Exchange traded funds (ETFs) had a stellar first half of the year at almost 580t due to the additional inflows in Q2 of 237t.
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It used to require deep pockets to do this with futures contracts, but with ETFs, every Tom, Dick & Harry with a $2000 trading account can do it.
Bar and coin demand was also up in a number of markets in Q2, including the US at 25t (up 101%), leading to H1 bar and coin investment of 485t, 4% higher than the first half last year. ACTIONS YOU UNDERTAKE AS A CONSEQUENCE OF ANY ANALYSIS, OPINION OR ADVERTISEMENT ON THIS SITE ARE YOUR SOLE RESPONSIBILITY. The result is that market volatility has been crushed by spread traders who typically short one-month volatility against VIX options expiring in two or three months.